I Don’t Have Time To Go On A Diet…
Does this sound familiar? I don’t have time to go on a diet! How many times have you thought and said those words to yourself: “I should start a diet, but I don’t really have the extra time for it.”
Now, think about this seriously for a second (If you’ve got one!)…
Does it take more or less time to eat less food?
Of course it takes less… then where is the problem really?
As you must know by now our problems are alive and well in our thoughts. So many people complain that it is too hard to go on a strict diet and go to work-out at the gym 3 times a week, but isn’t it worth the effort?
Sure it is. But again, how do we do that?
Well, changing habits takes between 21-30 days of practicing new action habits on a daily basis. But how will you find the time to go to the gym everyday for the next 30 days???
You don’t have to!
Research shows that by exercising 20 minutes 3 times a week (even a fast walk is enough) you can find activities that you already do daily and just make sure you keep doing them 3 times a week for 20 minutes.
For example:
1. Play ball with your kids.
2. Take a walk with your spouse.
3. Walk to the supermarket (find one that is a 20 minute walk away) and meet your spouse there, do your shopping and drive back.
4. Go on an outing with your children. It will be fun for all. Have some family fun time. Put on some music and jump around or dance together.
5. Find a home exercise tape and do it for 20 minutes.
6. Take the dog for a long brisk walk.
7. Wash your house floor and clean the windows.
8. Walk up and down the stairs for 20 minutes (only if your health allows it).
Be creative! But make sure it happens.
Here are some tips that will help you keep your new habits for 30 days:
1. Write them down on your calendar.
2. Hang them up on your fridge.
3. Ask your family members to help you and monitor yourself.
4. Ask a good friend to join you on the voyage and you can remind each other.
5. Print out: “I practice happily for 20 minutes 3 times a week, have I practiced today?”
Be excited!
Find what you like to do that involves physical exercise and just do more of it.
Remember the research that we mentioned in our book:
Hotel maids who were told that their daily work is going to make them lose weight and lower their blood pressure have seen a remarkable change. All this can be done with no extra work!
So if you tell yourself that only with a little more effort then you used to do – you will lose lots of pounds, this is what will eventually happen!!!
Have Fun!
Nehama and Adi
www.whyaminotthinyet.com
How The Law Of Attraction Can Help You Lose Weight
In your subconscious thoughts every subject you focus on transforms into an image in your mind. For example, when you think of a car usually you don’t see in your minds’ eye the word C-A-R but a picture of a car you know pops into your head. Food is a perfect example of this. Whenever you think about food, your subconscious mind releases an energy frequency and, according to the Law of Attraction, you are attracted to food.
This is precisely the basis for your weakness for food after announcing you are going to start a diet. From that point on, you start to obsess about food, count calories, and let the entire world know about your diet. The only thing left for your subconscious to do is get some food!
How does it work?
The Law of Vibration
Every individual projects energy. This energy is communicated in the human body as feelings. When you experience positive emotional sensations (happiness, joy, fun, pleasure etc.), you emit positive energy. However, when you have negative feelings (remorse, anger, pain, frustration, tension, etc.), you emanate negative energy. This is why you usually can sense the energy when entering an unfamiliar place or meeting new people, whether that energy is joy, anger, boredom, etc. More often than not, you can pick up on the energy that other people emit, which is typically interpreted via body language, a certain pitch of voice, and a general sense of attraction, or lack of attraction toward them.
Your thoughts determine your feelings and your energy frequency is then attuned accordingly. In order to change a frequency that you evaluate as negative and that limits the achievement of your goals, you must change your thoughts until you experience good feelings, and your energy frequency will then be modified appropriately.
Your energy has immense power. This power comes from:
The Law of Attraction
In general, you attract people, situations, experiences, and physical conditions in accordance to the energy you project via sensations generated by your mind and body. Good feelings attract other things that feel good. For instance, try to remember when someone last gave you a compliment. Isn’t it true that the rest of day was much more positive and fun? The energy aroused by the compliment attracted additional positive events and thoughts.
For this reason, you must be exceedingly aware of your thoughts and feelings in order to attract the things you desire. What also helps is:
The Power of Focus
Anything you focus on, positive or negative, happens and/or becomes enlarged. Women who are trying to get pregnant are very sensitive to the pregnant women they see and think that everyone is pregnant except for them.
When someone plans to buy the latest model car, suddenly all they see is that every other car is the same model as the one they want. This power stems from the integration of these three laws.
First, you focus on something, then, you emit a certain energy accompanied by the mindset you have toward it, and finally the Law of Attraction introduces it into your life.
When you focus on something, you infuse it with energy and inspire emotion until it grows and becomes part of your reality–for better or for worse.
Therefore it is better that you focus on your desired END RESULT, i.e. your desired weight, pant size, and the thin feeling when achieving your goal.
This is why people who obsess on food and drink gain weight. Interestingly, it works both if we want food and if we do not want it. As an old Chinese maxim says, “What you resist persists.” This means that everything you resist, through anger and negative energy, will intensify and grow! As long as you fight your weight and appearance you will get fat!
But why?
The focus is directed at food, fat, and external appearance while the feeling attached is extremely negative, and leads to an endless revisiting of negative issues and emotions. This, of course, results in weight gain, or, if all goes well, no more than weight maintenance.
This means that if you want to lose weight you should focus on the final result you want, such as a specific weight and/or an ideal appearance. Stop focusing on food, and instead, start now to focus on your ideal self and begin broadcasting positive energy to your mirror!
To Your Success,
Adi & Nehama
Nehama Sever and Adi Shaviv
Authors of the book “Why Am I Not Thin Yet?”
Founders of “Gold Mind The Science of Prosperity”
International Self-Development Speakers and Mentors
Think Your Way Thin Webinars
Look Good and Then Lose Weight
You have been thinking about starting a diet for weeks now. You have considered the Atkins diet, Weight Watchers, a no-carb diet and never decided which one is the right one for you.
Then one day you see your reflection in the mirror and terrified by what you see you make your mind up to start the diet tomorrow.
You are convinced that you need to look bad in order to stay on a diet. Well, did looking bad help you before or for that matter diet and lose weight?
Probably not, otherwise you would have lost those extra pounds by now.
The point is that looking bad and wearing clothes that make you look worse is what is driving you to eat.
You ask how does that happen? Well, it is Subconscious Negative Reinforcement.
People on a diet are all too familiar with the sentence: First I will lose a few pounds and then I will buy myself some new clothes.
But how does that work for us if we have been overweight for years?
The point is that when our closet is filled with clothes that look like rags we wear them and we look bad. That makes us feel insecure about ourselves and we compensate ourselves with food.
Your subconscious is exposed and moreover vulnerable to your appearance and self-image reinforcing the reality of the way you look.
To start looking better and lose weight we need to modify the subconscious image, your self-image, perceived in the mirror.
To do that:
Go through your closet and take out all the clothes that look bad on you and put them away. You don’t want to give yourself any opportunity to look bad.
Make a decision to look better all day. In the morning make a little effort and put on some make-up, lipstick, do your hair. It only takes a short time and the effect is amazing and worth it
You will immediately start looking good and attracting into your life more of the same, in addition to having pleasant feelings.
You deserve to feel good about the way you look right now. There is no need to delay. This is the key to looking better in the future and of course to lose weight and be triumphant.
To Your Success,
Adi & Nehama
Nehama Sever and Adi Shaviv
Authors of the book “Why Am I Not Thin Yet?”
Founders of “Gold Mind The Science of Prosperity”
International Self-Development Speakers and Mentors
Think Your Way Thin Webinar
Can Losing Weight Be Easy and Fun?
To all the people who have been dealing with being overweight for so many years it sounds almost impossible doesn’t it? Losing weight, having fun & being healthy.
For example, a person on a diet has already tried the Cabbage Soup Diet, Atkins Diet, Weight Watchers, and read every book in existence on dieting. They have been dieting and struggling with eating habits for most of their life.
This person can tell us about an endless war with food, their habits, the anger and frustration of breaking a diet, complete with all the disappointment and despair.
Believe me, if there was a better way, they would do it.
Well, we know they would have done it if only they knew how to lose weight easily and have fun at the same time. The point is that this seems too good to be true. Is there such an animal?
Some people, when being introduced to this way of dieting for the first time are skeptic. Still we see a speck of hope in their eyes wanting to believe it is possible.
Our own experience and the results our student’s have had prove that it does work.
The common approach towards weight loss and diets is suppressing our appetite. We try to restrain our urge to eat, our appetite, limit our eating, and judge ourselves brutally.
To all the people who have lost a few pounds and gained it back using this approach within less than a year over a period of few months; it’s time to see that:
Struggle and suppression is not a good strategy. Even when the result of the war is losing weight over a period of time, the achievement will fade away.
Why? Because war and fighting are tiring and eventually you feel weak and small.
The point is to be thinner and still feel strong and empowered.
You cannot achieve a real change in your appearance without altering your inner processes and thinking patterns. One of the most important changes is to become empowered, start believing in you and acknowledge your amazing gifts as you are right now.
When you look within and discover the thoughts, beliefs, and habits that are responsible for your current weight and weaknesses, change them from the inside and do it guided by peace and effortlessly. Then and only then the change will last.
The fact that this process is done with peace and empowerment gives you the strength to maintain your new self and the changes you made to better all aspects of your life.
Still don’t believe it’s possible to lose weight easily and having fun doing it?
Try it!!!! What’s the worse that can happen to you?
A Healthy Weight Loss? You May Succeed?
To get information on how to do it, please keep reading our blog.
To the new successful and powerful — YOU.
Nehama Sever and Adi Shaviv
Authors of the book “Why Am I Not Thin Yet?”
Founders of “Gold Mind The Science of Prosperity”
International Self-Development Speakers and Mentors
Think Your Way Thin Webinar
How Can Your Subconscious Self-Image and the Law of Attraction Help You Lose Weight Fast and Keep You Healthy?
What does self-image have to do with weight loss? What role does the subconscious play?
How can your self-image affect your success in following your diet?
In our subconscious mind we all have a particular self-image. It may be an image of a fat person that needs to lose weight fast, or of an unsuccessful person, or maybe a very attractive confident one.
That image has a representation attached to it, a picture that pops-up in our minds whenever we say the word “I”. The picture that appears to us in our minds does not necessarily equal reality. It actually matches the belief we have about who we are in our deepest subconscious.
If you have an image of a ‘fat’ you running through your head, how would you attract the desired ‘thin’ you, into your life? That image in our mind of the way we look, weight and external appearance determine what we project into the world.
Research shows that 80% of our behavior is affected by our subconscious. And that, together with our belief system, determines our results.
If you perceive of yourself as fat in your subconscious, the law of attraction will attract into your life that fat image time and again.
Changing the personal image you have of yourself to an image of a thin, healthy successful one, will help you become healthy and reach the weight you really want fast.
The change has to begin in your subconscious.
The next story will emphasize this point.
One of our students started applying what she learned by using our weight loss method and started losing weight.
Still her self-image of a thin attractive woman was not fixed in her subconscious just yet.
After losing 10 pounds she realized that she was not able to keep her diet any more. She even started seeing her real reflection not as it was. “I don’t feel like this is my reflection, it’s someone else’s. I look in the mirror and I see a fat distorted image staring back at me, even though I know that I lost weight.”
What actually happened is that her reflection in the mirror started changing into a thinner one, while her subconscious mind still held the image of a fat person.
Our subconscious doesn’t like changes. Whenever reality starts to change the subconscious panics and loosing the identity it was accustomed to. Actually, it can’t recognize the new person reflected in the mirror, unless the real picture is in harmony with the picture the subconscious holds.
So, in this case her subconscious started working on getting her back to the old ‘fat’ image.
We started working on changing the image in her subconscious by using affirmations, a vision board, and by changing her limiting beliefs in her subconscious. All of these are tools you can learn from our book, “Why Am I Not Thin Yet” and in our free newsletter at www.WhyAmINotThinYet.com
Now the self-image she has firmly implanted in her subconscious was of a healthy, appreciated, attractive, thin woman.
From that moment on, weight loss became effortless and she enjoyed looking at her reflection even before the change was complete.
Now, what image do you hold in your subconscious?
Is it of a successful, attractive self-confident person, or is it of an unworthy, fat, no good person?
If you want to succeed in losing weight and maintain the change in you, you have to start with changing the self-image in your subconscious mind into a successful, healthy, and happy, worthy person.
This image will help you lose weight faster and easily keep it off for good.
Gratefully yours,
Nehama Sever and Adi Shaviv
Authors of the book “Why Am I Not Thin Yet?”
Founders of “Gold Mind The Science of Prosperity”
International Self-Development Speakers and Mentors
Think Your Way Thin Webinar
Why Do Diets Fail? Great Tips for Successful Dieting
When so many people know how to lose weight and they can even write a book about it and when there are so many diet options available, why do so few people actually succeed with diets? We’ve asked hundreds of people how is it they don’t get slimmer faster if they know all the latest dieting tips.
Here are a few common responses:
- “I don’t have time for a strict diet program and to cook all that special food.”
- “My will power isn’t strong enough to keep me on my diet.”
- “I hate sports and I love carbs.”
- “Between work and taking care of my kids, I’m just not able to follow a strict diet program.”
- “My weight problem is genetic; I just can’t lose those extra 10 pounds.”
- “I hardly eat and I still can’t lose this extra weight.”
- “I can’t get skinny fast or even slowly.”
Common to all of these statements is the fact that they are all just thoughts. What’s more, they are all limiting thoughts that prevent people from following a diet and achieving their weight loss goals. Despite having opposite intentions, thoughts as “I don’t have time” or “I don’t have strong enough will power” cause you to stop your diet.
Which of the following diets have you tried? Atkins diet? Low Fat diet? Cabbage Soup diet? South Beach diet? Did you lose weight? Did you stay slim, or did it all come back after a while?
Changing your diet (what you eat daily) is not enough. In order to keep your desired weight you must change your thinking and accordingly your eating habits! By fighting what you eat – it can’t last! You must love your new way of life in order for it to continue!
Healthy, productive thoughts motivate us into action. Stressful thoughts (i.e. “I have to stop eating and start exercising”) lead us to non-action, leaving us just as we were before with no considerable change and without the results we desire.
What if there was a practical way for you to achieve weight loss without having negative thoughts? What if you could get out of the diet “war zone” forever and maintain your ideal weight without being at constant battle with yourself? Wouldn’t this be better than what you’ve experienced in the past? We’re betting that you’re answer is an immediate and emphatic “Yes!”
So here are some great weight loss tips:
- Get rid of all the clothes that don’t fit you right now or make you look unattractive. Get dressed like a model everyday no matter what your weight is at the moment. By looking good now, your subconscious will raise your self-esteem and help you keep your diet. Maybe it sounds “unusual”, but only after you try it you’ll understand that it really does work! Try to imagine it now. Every time you open your closet you have great clothes to wear (go get a new outfit that looks great on you now too!)
- Take out one gorgeous pair of pants that is one or two sizes smaller than what your current size is. Hang it where you can see it on a daily basis and PROMISE yourself that you are going to wear it soon! Be happy about it! Be excited about that!
- Find a photo of yourself where you are happy about the way you look (thinner, happier, etc.) Make at least 5 copies of that photo and hang it up all over your house and office. Remind your subconscious the way you want to look!
- Make the new supporting thoughts that are listed below a part of your internal dialogue and life from now on:
“Whenever I walk around the house I lose weight.”
“Every time I look at the mirror I see how good looking I am.”
“Each apple I eat makes me thinner.”
“I lose weight even when I am asleep.”
“I enjoy keeping my diet.”
If you want to learn more tips and techniques that will help you lose weight fast and stay slim forever, you are invited to sign-up for our free newsletter up on the top right, or on: www.WhyAmINotThinYet.com
Gratefully yours,
Nehama Sever and Adi Shaviv
Authors of the book “Why Am I Not Thin Yet?”
Founders of “Gold Mind The Science of Prosperity”
International Self-Development Speakers and Mentors
Decide to Lose Weight and Be Healthy
How many times have you decided to start a new diet? Whatever diet that was (Low Carb Diet, Mediterranean Diet, South Beach, Cabbage Soup Diet, Protein Diet, Liquid Diet, etc.), did you manage to stick with it?
Let’s talk about deciding to diet.
The word decision comes from two Latin words.
“De” –meaning “from”, and “Ceadere” - meaning “to cut”. This is when you make a decision to do something (in this case starting a diet) and at that very moment any other option is not even considered. Even if we meet difficulties staying on the diet we have no choice but to carry on.
When we start a new diet every week we are not making a decision to diet we are only making a wish to lose weight. The problem is that your subconscious receives the message that you are not serious about dieting. Thus the diet never works.
When do decisions regarding diets actually work?
When people experience a trauma such as an illness, or when they lose someone close to them due to being overweight, they are more motivated to totally change their habits and suddenly it seems that following a diet is easy. They discover that they don’t have “to go on a diet” every other day and most likely will begin to live their life differently.
How can you follow your diet program without difficulty?
There are two major elements to be aware of about your decision to diet:
One: Having an important reason to diet helps keep you committed to the task and the diet is transformed into a healthy life style.
Ask yourself: What are your reasons for losing weight? Is it your health, or maybe your children, or your desire to be attractive to someone, or feel great about yourself? Maybe you want to be able to go to the beach without feeling ashamed of your body? What if you promised your loved ones or yourself to lose weight for these reasons? What are the odds you will succeed this time?
Two: The role your subconscious has on the success of your diet program.
If you have decided to diet many times before and failed, your subconscious will invariably fail you again. This pattern of deciding to start a diet and failing to follow it becomes a habit and your subconscious identifies it as such.
Following the same approach you will unconsciously fail your diet.
What you need to do.
Change the way you make decisions regarding diets.
The subconscious mind needs new programming regarding your decision to diet. It’s about time you stick to your decision to diet. To do that, decide to diet one day at a time.
Yes, every day, when you wake up, decide if you want to diet today. If so declare your decision to diet by saying out loud to yourself: “Today I promise myself and the people I care for, to keep my diet, to be healthy, happy and powerful. I will stick to my decision to diet all day. Tomorrow I will decide again.”
The decision to diet for one day at a time is much easier to follow. Your subconscious now sees that you stick to your decisions and promises about dieting and weight lose becomes natural.
Promising yourself and others to follow your diet today makes your commitment to your diet stronger.
Even if one day a week you decide not to diet remember that all together you managed to keep your diet 88% of the month! It is better than nothing!
Another very important decision we recommend is this:
I promise to love and respect myself no matter how I look, to see all the good in me and make it stronger and better.
Gratefully yours,
Nehama Sever and Adi Shaviv
Authors of the book “Why Am I Not Thin Yet?”
Founders of “Gold Mind: The Science of Prosperity”
International Self-Development Speakers and Mentors
Diet Tips - How To Diet and Enjoy Food
Have you wondered what some great diet tips could do for you? All of us have had this feeling of declaring war with oneself when starting a diet. The point is that the minute you think of going on a diet you start thinking of all the food you’re not supposed to eat.
You try to go on a cabbage soup diet, and all you can think about is chocolate and bread that you are not allowed to eat. How can you follow your diet and stop fighting your desire to eat the forbidden food? Well, here comes your first diet tip…
The first thing you do is to give yourself the permission to eat one little treat a week or even every two days. How come? When you are allowed to eat something it stops being so attractive.
Keep only 2-3 treats you can eat every week in your house. A little trick on the subconscious mind is to keep them in the drawer where you keep those 2-3 allowed treats, like an apple, a carrot, a cucumber and other things you are allowed to eat while on a diet. Make them your treats too.
This way, when you feel like treating yourself, open the drawer and decide which treat its going to be today. You’ll be surprised to see that sometimes you actually choose cucumber over a little chocolate bar.
When you decide its OK to eat one to three treats a week it becomes a fun diet with no need to fight the desire to eat the forbidden foods.
We hope you enjoyed our first diet tip and invite you to our webinar filled with weight loss tips. You will learn how your thinking affects your weight and how to change your thinking to achieve your goals.
Enjoy and see you on our next blog!!!!
Nehama & Adi
Proof: Why Stressing Out Makes You Gain Weight!
Have you heard about Cortisol?
Well, in our body there is a steroid hormone called Cortisol. It is known as the “stress-hormone” due to the simple fact that the level of Cortisol in our body rises when we get stressed.
Now why should this even interest us? Aren’t we talking about easy and fun diets?
Well, it is really important to know that when the Cortisol level in our body starts to rise the body reacts by raising the blood sugar level releasing fatty acids so that the muscles will have enough energy to operate and survive. It means that if you eat while you are stressed you are going to gain weight.
What actually happens is that when we are stressed the body reacts as if we have just fallen into a deep pit and we may be stuck there for 3 days. This bodily mechanism saves your life by “conserving” the necessary things it needs which is sugar, fat and more.
But the problems start when we are stressed as the Cortisol level increases and we are in very close proximity to our kitchen.
Our body can’t tell the difference between small meals (even if we are on a diet and hardly eat a thing) or regular big meals. While we are stressed our body reacts the same way to anything we eat conserving it and that is when we start to gain weight.
So, if you are for example, on the cabbage diet and all you eat is cabbage soup and you are stressed during the day, it is equivalent to eating 3 full meals. Your body will store anything you eat and you will be over weight, or at least will not lose weight.
But you may say: “When I eat I am not stressed at all. I love eating so much that it makes me feel so good”. If that is the case, great! But the most important thing is to stay calm after you eat!
If I just finished a nice juicy burger with some fries and a coke and by the time I got back to the car I realized that it was a big mistake, I will be stressed. My body will immediately react to that thought, it will raise the Cortisol level and I will start gaining weight and fat.
If you have already eaten that meal be happy about it, and forget it!
Remind yourself that you deserve a medal for not taking the big size ice-cream sundae you really wanted. And you know you could eat it all!
Celebrate your success.
Forget those things that make you feel bad.
Oh, yes – One important thing to mention:
Being stressed about ANYTHING will make you gain weight.
Let’s say that you are stuck in traffic and you think that there is no chance to get where you’re going on time and you start to get stressed. STOP! It is not helping you lose weight. By being stressed you won’t make the traffic go away, true? So why gain weight due to that too? Turn on your radio and listen to music that you love, call someone that you love talking to, sing a song –Do what makes you feel good.
This also includes fighting with your spouse and kids, being angry at your boss, and especially being upset from looking in the mirror.
It may sound weird, but only when you’ll be able to look at yourself in the mirror with only good thoughts will you be able to lose weight. Try thinking positively: “I love myself just as I am.” Or how about: “I promise myself that I’ll get thinner everyday and I can feel it starting to happen already.”
Allow yourself to love your reflection right now!
It doesn’t mean that you are giving up on losing weight – on the contrary!
Only when you are able to look at yourself with love, your body will not rise the Cortisol level and it will keep on doing what it does best. So, take good care of your health, and help yourself reach your healthy weight!
If you found this information useful and you would like to learn more to be able to see the same results our past students have, feel free to join us in our online live webinar by going here.
Gratefully yours,
Nehama Sever and Adi Shaviv
Authors of the book “Why Am I Not Thin Yet?”
Founders of “Gold Mind: The Science of Prosperity”
International Self-development Speakers and Mentors